Linus on Gnome 3.2

[Howard Gibson]

On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 23:35:54 -0500
Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:


> 
> I'm finding Gnome 3.2 to be much more responsive than Gnome 2.3.
> Everything starts a lot faster, especially terminals and Chrome.
> 
> Anything less than a P4 would be essentially useless for viewing web
> content anyway, no matter how light your desktop. My P4 is already too
> slow to run the most recent Iceweasel, it takes forever just to load
> GMail. Chrome is fine, of course.

Thomas,

   You make some points there.  The FVWM2 window manager and Sylpheed email ran fine on my old Pentium II/350.  I replaced it because OpenOffice would not work.  I did not have high speed internet at the time, so I was unable to cause browser problems.  

   At work, I run SolidWorks 2011 under Windows XP Pro.  3D mechanical CAD, definitely including SolidWorks, is a brutal thing to do to your computer.  SolidWorks crashes a lot, and it does weird things to the Windows environment as the memory runs out.  One of the standard bits of advice to SolidWorks users is to save memory and turn off the eye candy.  This means I use the plainest window decorations available.  I was sad at having to turn off the waddling dinosaur mouse icon.  I have work to do, and the desktop actually is a minimal part of my experience.  It is mostly Outlook, Explorer, SolidWorks, and Microsoft Excel.  

   I don't have anything anywhere near as abuse under Linux.  I would assume that the OS is better protected from memory hogs, but it has been a few years since I have activated swap.  I would love it if they would port SolidWorks to Linux.  

   I think that people's primary criticism of Gnome_3 is that it is inefficient.  It takes a maximum number of mouse clicks to find your files and applications, and to switch from application to application.  

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